TeriLeigh, the gang brood gives Minnesota a civic memory people can carry long after the policy language fades. A reader can picture adults widening the perimeter around children, and that image preserves how ordinary people understood their obligation to one another while events were unfolding. WOMN is preserving both testimony and the moral vocabulary a community used to decide who belonged inside its circle of care. I appreciate how deliberately you rooted that memory in a creature, a landscape, and a protective instinct Minnesotans immediately recognize.
Thank you Kevin. when I came across the term “gang brood” it made perfect sense for the womn protecting the children during the surge. The stories in this chapter are really intimate, sharing how these womn protected all children. even womn who don’t have children of their own.
A story well told. The imagery of fierce geese protecting their goslings is a great analogy. We can then easily picture what the adults did... and why the adults circled up around the children.
I remember the day I wrote this, it was around the time I was giving a wide amount of space to the gang broods of geese on my morning walks around the lake. Amazing how nature always inspires.
TeriLeigh, the gang brood gives Minnesota a civic memory people can carry long after the policy language fades. A reader can picture adults widening the perimeter around children, and that image preserves how ordinary people understood their obligation to one another while events were unfolding. WOMN is preserving both testimony and the moral vocabulary a community used to decide who belonged inside its circle of care. I appreciate how deliberately you rooted that memory in a creature, a landscape, and a protective instinct Minnesotans immediately recognize.
Thank you Kevin. when I came across the term “gang brood” it made perfect sense for the womn protecting the children during the surge. The stories in this chapter are really intimate, sharing how these womn protected all children. even womn who don’t have children of their own.
A story well told. The imagery of fierce geese protecting their goslings is a great analogy. We can then easily picture what the adults did... and why the adults circled up around the children.
I remember the day I wrote this, it was around the time I was giving a wide amount of space to the gang broods of geese on my morning walks around the lake. Amazing how nature always inspires.
Beautiful...both the action and the writing.